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Show 535 1st Avenue -- 1903 Architect/Builder: Building Type/Style: Victorian eclectic Building Materials: brick Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) This is a large, two-story Victorian home on a corner lot. It has an octagonal corner tower with a wood-shingle sided third floor, and there is a woodshingle sided front (South) dormer window with a pedimental gable and broad eaves. The house has hip roofs with broad eaves and a wide, simple wooden cornice with two courses of corbelled brick below. There is a front center second floor oval window above the broad wooden porch. The porch is hip-roofed with a pedimental gable marking the entry, and has a dentiled cornice and square fluted columns with rosettes at the capitals. On the west side of the house is a threesided brick bay window whose gable roof is supported by delicate carved brackets. Statement of Historical Significance: a D a D a Aboriginal Americans .Agriculture Architecture The Arts Commerce D Communication Q Conservation Q Education D Exploration/Settlement a^lndustry a Military S^Mining O Minority Groups a Political D Recreation D Religion a Science CS^Socio-Humanitarian D Transportation This house is significant because it is a well preserved example of Victorian architecture on the Avenues. Wilson I. Snyder, the original owner, was a Salt Lake and Park City attorney. This property was originally owned by John MsCullough, a tawner with the Rowe fvforris and Summerhays Company which dealt in hides, wool pelts and leather. He built a small house on this property in the 1860 f s. In 1875 when John and Louise McCullough were divorced, Louise received the house as part of the settlement. She owned it jointly with her children, William, Jeanette and John, In 1889 the McCulloughs sold the house to Casper L. Robertson. Robertson owned the property for a couple of days and sold it to Kezin D'Ongly Hughes. In 1901 Hughes sold the property to Wilson I. Snyder for $2,800. (See also 517 1st). Snyder probably tore down the old house and took out a mortgage in 1903 for $4,500 to build this house. A large house about this size cost about that much to construct at the turn of the century in Salt Lake City. Snyder lived here from 1901 to 1922. Snyder was born in Midvale, Utah to George G. and Elsie Jacob Snyder on September 14,1856. He married Elizabeth Wells Arrick on November 30,1886. He studied law under Judge J.G. Sutherland and JudgeE.F. Dunne, He was admitted to the bar of the Third District Court of Utah in 1878, the Supreme Court of Utah in 1881, and the United States Supreme Court in 1908. He practiced law in Park City before he moved to Salt Lake in 1901. He was a -member of the firm Snyder, Westerfeld, Snyder and Wright for three years. He left that firm to set up a partnership with his brother Bismarck Snyder. He was president of the Utah State Bar in 1908. He co-wrote a book called "Snyder on Moses." He was a member of the Masonic Order. |
